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Frukathka said:I believe Bront meant to ask was: Who is your favorite Moderator.
Personally, I can't pick just one, there are many that I like. I like Henry, Darkness, Plane Sailing, heck I really like all of them considering that not one moderatore has given me any warning points!
Me neither and I thought for sure some of my Segments from the Storyhour STRIKEFORCE: MORITURI would get me warned.
Not saying I want to be given a warning either folks.....
megamania
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and how is this for hi-jacking.... Speaking oh my Strikeforce Storyhour...here is an excerp from my Creation Schema one last week....
(well ...2 segments auctually.....)
EBERRON
07/09/05
SEGMENT 086
“The Revenge of Keltis Doran”
The airship traveled steadily all day and night. By daybreak, they had already left Aundair and were within the limits of the Eldeen Reaches. They pass Varna and continue on. To the right they see an endless forest and to the south they see Lake Galifar that seems to reach forever.
Unknown to them, while near Varna, they picked up a follower. Keltis Doran and his new close friend and lover, Karrion Kold, are pursuing them within their own airship. Near Niern Captain Halley spots the craft.
Uncertain at what to do, the group waits and watches. They hope against hope that this is just a passing ship in a hurry. They hope it is not either the Emerald Claw or House Cannith South. Once the ship reaches them they can see six black skeletons with swords watching them. As they get closer Cedious spots Keltis and recognizes him from the Rose Quarry.
Captain Halley calls for the pilot to push the ship harder to draw away but it too slow for the faster ship. The skeletons take ropes and run off the far side as they run next to the Cannith ship. The skeletons hold onto the ropes as they become taunt and then the ropes whip them under the Emerald Claw ship and throw them towards the Cannith ship. Five land on the deck and one lands on an arm of the Fire Elemental containment system.
The guards rush the skeletons but then stop. Most of them turn and flee to hide as the fear overwhelms them. The pilot is also overwhelmed in fear. In terror he turns the ship quickly causing many to fall. Some even fall off the ship. Taskerdoo’s animal companion nearly falls over the edge but the quick hands of Cedious save the dinosaur.
Two spiritual weapons appear before the pilot as three of the black skeletons surround the captain. If both are killed, there will be no one to pilot the craft.
Sharshek picks himself off the deck and finds a black skeleton has charged onto him. It attacks with two short swords and has spikes of bone growing out of its own blackened bones. These are not the normal undead skeletons that are attacking them. Unknown to them, they are the newest creations of Keltis –The Brood.
Black sands is almost amazed as he strikes one several times but it remains standing and attacking still. Taskerdoo tries his best to avoid the conflict. He wonders what he can do to attack the Claw’s ship. The warriors on the Emerald Claw ship begin to fire arrows onto the ship now. Most miss but not all.
The captain goes down and those three undead spread out to attack surviving guards and the pilot. The pilot is killed even as he tries to move away from the Claw ship. The undead then destroys whatever it can of the controls which threatens to release the entrapped fire elemental that empowers the craft.
Keltis decides this is taking too long and calls up a pillar of flame to strike at the center of the ship. The deck shatters and bursts into flames. The craft shudders under the new strain and damage. Taskerdoo considers leaping onto their ship since he believes theirs is about to go down but the movement of the failing ship draws the two craft apart. Angry at his ill position, he calls up a Flaming Sphere and strikes an archer. He then commands the ball of fire to roll around on the deck spreading the fire. “Two can play at this game!” he shouts. He burns many archers then directs it to strike Karrion Kold. She withdraws in anger. Before she was here as a witness, now it is becoming personal.
Black sands and Cedious team up on the undead and begins to defeat them. Angry with the dinosaur riding halfling, Karrion fires a fireball from a magical red globe. Taskerdoo was just entering the storage area where blankets designed for putting out flames are stored. The roof and wall explode as the fireball strikes it causing the entire ship to once more shudder and veer away further.
Both ships are now on fire. The Cannith ship has the worst fire damage and has no pilots left. It is going down. The battle is taking place 3000 feet above the ground. Taskerdoo spots the flames on the Claw ship change color then a series of small explosions rock the ship. Something sensitive to flames is exploding. The Claw ship veers away to deal with its own issues.
Cedious- ever the thief checks out the body of the captain. He finds money, which he puts away, and a +1 rapier, which he also keeps. He then finds three pellets each have a feather etched on them. He hopes they are magical containers of Feather Fall or Flight. The captain also has a Cannith dragon mark on him. Yet another Cannith member has died while under their care. The last of the black skeletons are defeated but the ship is going down.
Cedious pulls out a secret weapon. His Decanter of Endless Water. He opens it at full power and tries to put out the fire. He does this and wash dead bodies and loses equipment off the deck. He wonders what the upper limits of the water could be as the ship continues to spiral towards the earth.
“Great. Just great. Can’t we keep anything we ride in intact?!?” grumbles Sharshek as he looks for somewhere to brace himself.
EBERRON
07/09/05
SEGMENT 087
“Crash Landing”
Cedious looks down from the rail. The ship is making wide gentle circular patterns as it falls to the earth. They are near the forest edge. They may land in the forest or they may land in the fields. Black sands looks for a safer place to secure himself. He decides on the pilot’s room. Sharshek is already there. He has just finishing looting the pilot’s dead body hoping for something useful.
Cedious decides it is time to test the magic pellets at about 500ft from the earth’s surface. He squeezes the pellet which melts in his finger tips. He feels lighter then finds himself carried off the deck of the ship as he begins to fall slightly slower than the ship. He narrowly avoids being caught within the power of the fire elemental as the ship passes him. Taskerdoo tries something much more desperate. He casts jump onto himself and his dinosaur. He then uses Spider climb and waits. He studies the timing of the ship's rotation and the forest. He charges off the arm of the craft near the elemental and leaps out to the forest. He disappears into the thick branches.
Cedious watches the ship as one-arm strikes a tree uprooting it and splintering the arm of the ship. Even as the elemental tears free of the containment system the craft’s stern strikes ground. The ship leaps and drags the bow along the earth uprooting smaller trees as it crashes into the forest’s edge. A fireball erupts as the elemental erupts free and begins to strike out at the dead bodies and undead bodies before it. Black sands and Sharshek are beaten and bruised as the equipment and body of the pilot are sent lose and crash about within the small room. They feel the heat as the elemental tears itself free. Cedious merely watches with slight interest from about 150 feet above.
An arm of the ship catches a large standing stone which somehow (magically?) withstands the impact of the ship and causes it to spin wildly as it strikes more trees. Finally the ship comes to a rest. The Huge Greater Fire Elemental roars in anger. It grabs and burns the captain’s body in rage. Sharshek and Black sands decide they need to get out of there. Sharshek finds it hard to breathe, as several ribs are broken and possibly an arm. However –he is alive!
Slowly, Cedious redirects his feather fall to a safer landing area than within the reach of the fire. As he lands, he sprints for the trees where he can see Taskerdoo with his dinosaurs. With the exception of some minor scratches and scrapes they seem okay.
The 1-inch of snow has been melted away within thirty feet of the crash site already. Black sands helps the human fighter out of the wreck and towards the forest. The elemental continues to burn more of the deck and bodies in rage.
They don’t look back as the run away. They don’t see the Claw ship and hope it has crashed and has taken Keltis and the woman with it.
About a half of a mile away they stop and rest. Healing potions are handed out to those in the most need. They review the options decide to press forward.
(well ...2 segments auctually.....)
EBERRON
07/09/05
SEGMENT 086
“The Revenge of Keltis Doran”
The airship traveled steadily all day and night. By daybreak, they had already left Aundair and were within the limits of the Eldeen Reaches. They pass Varna and continue on. To the right they see an endless forest and to the south they see Lake Galifar that seems to reach forever.
Unknown to them, while near Varna, they picked up a follower. Keltis Doran and his new close friend and lover, Karrion Kold, are pursuing them within their own airship. Near Niern Captain Halley spots the craft.
Uncertain at what to do, the group waits and watches. They hope against hope that this is just a passing ship in a hurry. They hope it is not either the Emerald Claw or House Cannith South. Once the ship reaches them they can see six black skeletons with swords watching them. As they get closer Cedious spots Keltis and recognizes him from the Rose Quarry.
Captain Halley calls for the pilot to push the ship harder to draw away but it too slow for the faster ship. The skeletons take ropes and run off the far side as they run next to the Cannith ship. The skeletons hold onto the ropes as they become taunt and then the ropes whip them under the Emerald Claw ship and throw them towards the Cannith ship. Five land on the deck and one lands on an arm of the Fire Elemental containment system.
The guards rush the skeletons but then stop. Most of them turn and flee to hide as the fear overwhelms them. The pilot is also overwhelmed in fear. In terror he turns the ship quickly causing many to fall. Some even fall off the ship. Taskerdoo’s animal companion nearly falls over the edge but the quick hands of Cedious save the dinosaur.
Two spiritual weapons appear before the pilot as three of the black skeletons surround the captain. If both are killed, there will be no one to pilot the craft.
Sharshek picks himself off the deck and finds a black skeleton has charged onto him. It attacks with two short swords and has spikes of bone growing out of its own blackened bones. These are not the normal undead skeletons that are attacking them. Unknown to them, they are the newest creations of Keltis –The Brood.
Black sands is almost amazed as he strikes one several times but it remains standing and attacking still. Taskerdoo tries his best to avoid the conflict. He wonders what he can do to attack the Claw’s ship. The warriors on the Emerald Claw ship begin to fire arrows onto the ship now. Most miss but not all.
The captain goes down and those three undead spread out to attack surviving guards and the pilot. The pilot is killed even as he tries to move away from the Claw ship. The undead then destroys whatever it can of the controls which threatens to release the entrapped fire elemental that empowers the craft.
Keltis decides this is taking too long and calls up a pillar of flame to strike at the center of the ship. The deck shatters and bursts into flames. The craft shudders under the new strain and damage. Taskerdoo considers leaping onto their ship since he believes theirs is about to go down but the movement of the failing ship draws the two craft apart. Angry at his ill position, he calls up a Flaming Sphere and strikes an archer. He then commands the ball of fire to roll around on the deck spreading the fire. “Two can play at this game!” he shouts. He burns many archers then directs it to strike Karrion Kold. She withdraws in anger. Before she was here as a witness, now it is becoming personal.
Black sands and Cedious team up on the undead and begins to defeat them. Angry with the dinosaur riding halfling, Karrion fires a fireball from a magical red globe. Taskerdoo was just entering the storage area where blankets designed for putting out flames are stored. The roof and wall explode as the fireball strikes it causing the entire ship to once more shudder and veer away further.
Both ships are now on fire. The Cannith ship has the worst fire damage and has no pilots left. It is going down. The battle is taking place 3000 feet above the ground. Taskerdoo spots the flames on the Claw ship change color then a series of small explosions rock the ship. Something sensitive to flames is exploding. The Claw ship veers away to deal with its own issues.
Cedious- ever the thief checks out the body of the captain. He finds money, which he puts away, and a +1 rapier, which he also keeps. He then finds three pellets each have a feather etched on them. He hopes they are magical containers of Feather Fall or Flight. The captain also has a Cannith dragon mark on him. Yet another Cannith member has died while under their care. The last of the black skeletons are defeated but the ship is going down.
Cedious pulls out a secret weapon. His Decanter of Endless Water. He opens it at full power and tries to put out the fire. He does this and wash dead bodies and loses equipment off the deck. He wonders what the upper limits of the water could be as the ship continues to spiral towards the earth.
“Great. Just great. Can’t we keep anything we ride in intact?!?” grumbles Sharshek as he looks for somewhere to brace himself.
EBERRON
07/09/05
SEGMENT 087
“Crash Landing”
Cedious looks down from the rail. The ship is making wide gentle circular patterns as it falls to the earth. They are near the forest edge. They may land in the forest or they may land in the fields. Black sands looks for a safer place to secure himself. He decides on the pilot’s room. Sharshek is already there. He has just finishing looting the pilot’s dead body hoping for something useful.
Cedious decides it is time to test the magic pellets at about 500ft from the earth’s surface. He squeezes the pellet which melts in his finger tips. He feels lighter then finds himself carried off the deck of the ship as he begins to fall slightly slower than the ship. He narrowly avoids being caught within the power of the fire elemental as the ship passes him. Taskerdoo tries something much more desperate. He casts jump onto himself and his dinosaur. He then uses Spider climb and waits. He studies the timing of the ship's rotation and the forest. He charges off the arm of the craft near the elemental and leaps out to the forest. He disappears into the thick branches.
Cedious watches the ship as one-arm strikes a tree uprooting it and splintering the arm of the ship. Even as the elemental tears free of the containment system the craft’s stern strikes ground. The ship leaps and drags the bow along the earth uprooting smaller trees as it crashes into the forest’s edge. A fireball erupts as the elemental erupts free and begins to strike out at the dead bodies and undead bodies before it. Black sands and Sharshek are beaten and bruised as the equipment and body of the pilot are sent lose and crash about within the small room. They feel the heat as the elemental tears itself free. Cedious merely watches with slight interest from about 150 feet above.
An arm of the ship catches a large standing stone which somehow (magically?) withstands the impact of the ship and causes it to spin wildly as it strikes more trees. Finally the ship comes to a rest. The Huge Greater Fire Elemental roars in anger. It grabs and burns the captain’s body in rage. Sharshek and Black sands decide they need to get out of there. Sharshek finds it hard to breathe, as several ribs are broken and possibly an arm. However –he is alive!
Slowly, Cedious redirects his feather fall to a safer landing area than within the reach of the fire. As he lands, he sprints for the trees where he can see Taskerdoo with his dinosaurs. With the exception of some minor scratches and scrapes they seem okay.
The 1-inch of snow has been melted away within thirty feet of the crash site already. Black sands helps the human fighter out of the wreck and towards the forest. The elemental continues to burn more of the deck and bodies in rage.
They don’t look back as the run away. They don’t see the Claw ship and hope it has crashed and has taken Keltis and the woman with it.
About a half of a mile away they stop and rest. Healing potions are handed out to those in the most need. They review the options decide to press forward.
